external

external
    adj 1: happening or arising or located outside or beyond some
           limits or especially surface; "the external auditory
           canal"; "external pressures" [ant: {internal}]
    2: coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera
       spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income";
       "disdaining outside pressure groups" [syn: {external},
       {extraneous}, {outside}]
    3: from or between other countries; "external commerce";
       "international trade"; "developing nations need outside help"
       [syn: {external}, {international}, {outside(a)}]
    4: purely outward or superficial; "external composure"; "an
       external concern for reputation"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
    n 1: outward features; "he enjoyed the solemn externals of
         religion"
    

External \Ex*ter"nal\, n.
   Something external or without; outward part; that which makes
   a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; --
   usually in the plural.
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         Adam was then no less glorious in his externals
                                                  --South.
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         God in externals could not place content. --Pope.
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External \Ex*ter"nal\, a. [L. externus, fr. exter, exterus, on
   the outside, outward. See {Exterior}.]
   1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body;
      being without; acting from without; -- opposed to
      {internal}; as, the external form or surface of a body.
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            Of all external things, . . .
            She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate
      from the perceiving mind.
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   3. Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as
      distinguished from mental or moral.
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            Her virtues graced with external gifts. --Shak.
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   4. Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying;
      superficial.
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            The external circumstances are greatly different.
                                                  --Trench.
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   5. Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations;
      as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of
      a state or kingdom.
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   6. (Anat.) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
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   {External angles}. (Geom.) See under {Angle}.
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59 Moby Thesaurus words for "external":
      alien, apparent, border, circumference, cortex, cortical, covering,
      crust, envelope, epidermic, epidermis, exomorphic, exotic,
      exterior, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic, facade, face,
      facet, foreign, fringe, front, impersonal, integument, lineaments,
      nonsubjective, objective, open, out, outer, outer face,
      outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outermost, outline, outlying,
      outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, over,
      perceptible, peripheral, periphery, public, rind, roundabout,
      seeming, shell, skin, superficial, superficies, superstratum,
      surface, top, visible